You are probably aware that with your help we were able to release Liferay 6.1 GA1 last week! This is a big milestone for the project and for the community in general, so on behalf of Liferay and its community, I want to thank all of for your volunteerism and help

We are looking at possibly producing a GA2 release of Liferay 6.1 in the coming months, to fix any critical issues that remain open (or are new regressions) in Liferay. What I'd like to do for this team is concentrate on the bugs reported against 6.1 GA1 first (there are only 25 of them so far!).

Some of you have been active on the Community Verifier team, and that's been awesome! I'd like to drum up some more interest, so what better way to kick off the new year than with a contest! Here's the contest:

Between now and February 3rd, the CV team member who helps Liferay QA verify the most number of bugs gets a $100 (or its equivalent in your local currency) gift card to amazon.com or thinkgeek.com! In addition, your name and face will be splashed on liferay.org as a featured contributor (with your permission of course!) and proud member of the Liferay Community!

Starting sometime next week I will post a realtime scoreboard so you can see where you stand. As a reminder, the cutoff date is February 3rd. So get started today, and win a nice new year's gift! And if you aren't a member of CV, but have development experience on Liferay, a willingness to volunteer your time, and wish to join, let me know via this thread.

Gee, I've been working on the Apache ManifoldCF project to replace Liferay's search because Liferay.com seems like it wasn't going to correct their not very usable search capabilities. I just added MySQL support and thought I was almost finished with I18N and Japanese L10N only to find today some problem with using Japanese at Apache site (works OK locally).(sign) Have to tackle this problem first.

Feb.3 (which timezone is this anyways?) is only 2 and a half week on a very short notice. Anyways, why the hurry? Is Liferay planning on releasing GA2 very soon? If it's going to be another 6 months, can't the deadline be extended?

BTW, what about new bugs? I haven't checked if the following issue has yet been created yet.http://www.liferay.com/community/forums/-/message_boards/message/12140618

Feb.3 (which timezone is this anyways?) is only 2 and a half week on a very short notice. Anyways, why the hurry? Is Liferay planning on releasing GA2 very soon? If it's going to be another 6 months, can't the deadline be extended?

GA2 definitely won't be in 6 months. More like 6-8 weeks. The Feb 3 cutoff is specifically Feb 3 at 11:59pm US/Pacific timezone. Also, keep in mind you don't have to fix the bugs, just verify that they are indeed bugs (i.e. try and reproduce them, and make sure fields are properly specified, etc). So shouldn't take more than 15 minutes for your average bug (of course some will take more, and some less).

Do not worry Hitoshi, this isn't the last contest we will have for this kind of activity I appreciate your interest as always!

BTW, what about new bugs? I haven't checked if the following issue has yet been created yet.http://www.liferay.com/community/forums/-/message_boards/message/12140618

Filing new bugs isn't part of hte Community Verifier team's charter (of course the above should be filed as a bug, but won't count towards the "prize").